Congratulations to Shlomo Zilberstein on winning the 2025 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This prestigious award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. Professor Shlomo Zilberstein was recognised for his work establishing the field of decentralized … Read More
#AAAI2025 workshops round-up 1: Artificial intelligence for music, and towards a knowledge-grounded scientific research lifecycle
Top: Group shot from the workshop “Artificial Intelligence for Music”. Bottom: Two best paper award winners at the workshop: “AI4Research: Towards a Knowledge-grounded Scientific Research Lifecycle”. In a series of articles, we’ll be publishing summaries with some of the key takeaways from a few of workshops held at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025). In this … Read More
The Good Robot podcast: Re-imagining voice assistants with Stina Hasse Jørgensen and Frederik Juutilainen
Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. Re-imagining voice assistants with Stina Hasse Jørgensen and Frederik Juutilainen To develop voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, companies spend years investigating what sounds like a human voice and what doesn’t. But what we’ve ended up … Read More
Visualizing research in the age of AI
An original photograph taken by Felice Frankel (left) and an AI-generated image of the same content. Credit: Felice Frankel. Image on right was generated with DALL-E By Melanie M Kaufman For over 30 years, science photographer Felice Frankel has helped MIT professors, researchers, and students communicate their work visually. Throughout that time, she has seen the development of various tools … Read More
Another win for Coinbase as Vermont drops its crypto staking case against exchange
Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, said their “work isn’t over” Vermont issued a Show Cause Order shortly after the SEC filed a lawsuit against Coinbase in 2023 The SEC dropped its lawsuit against Coinbase in February The US state of Vermont has dropped its legal case against Coinbase over its staking services, earning the exchange another significant victory. In … Read More
Coinbase to halt FLOKI, TURBO, and Gigachad (GIGA) trading in New York
Coinbase will halt the trading of FLOKI, TURBO, and GIGA in New York on April 14, 2025. The decision sparked debate on accessibility and regulatory challenges for memecoins. FLOKI and GIGA prices have dropped, while the TURBO coin price has seen a modest surge. Coinbase Inc., a leading US cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that trading for three trending memecoins—Floki Inu … Read More
#IJCAI panel on communicating about AI with the public
Science communication is an invaluable skill for researchers. It can help demystify AI for a broad range of people including policy makers, business leaders, and the public. In a panel session at the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24), Michael Wooldridge and Toby Walsh talked with Peter Stone about lessons they’ve learnt from communicating about AI with different … Read More
Interview with Tunazzina Islam: Understand microtargeting and activity patterns on social media
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In the third of our interviews with … Read More
Coinbase to launch 24/7 Bitcoin and Ethereum futures in the US
Coinbase will launch the 24/7 Bitcoin and Ethereum futures products on its CFTC-regulated futures exchange Coinbase Derivatives. The exchange also plans for a perpetual-style futures contract. Coinbase is looking to tap into the growing demand for crypto trading with a round-the-clock futures offering for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The exchange, the largest regulated US-based provider, will offer the BTC … Read More
Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs
Fritzchens Fritz / Better Images of AI / GPU shot etched 2 / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Kevin Witzenberger, Queensland University of Technology and Michael Richardson, UNSW Sydney After a year of shoehorning generative AI into its flagship products, Microsoft is trying to recoup the costs by raising prices, putting ads in products, and cancelling data centre leases. Google … Read More